Richard Carter
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Newsletter No. 7: ‘Hacked and hurt by time’
John Tyndall • Galápagos cormorants • why English is so odd • Thoreau & Darwin • anthropological discoveries • mass-extinction hyperbole • W.G. Sebald • yellow rattle • Inigo Thomas • Mars exploration • and more…
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Newsletter No. 6: ‘A borrowed dog’
Woodpeckers • ambrotype portraits • W.G. Sebald • a deserted hamlet • mission creep • prime meridians • W.H. Hudson • podcasts • street photography • bonkers • tapirs • coiners • and more…
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Book review: ‘The Gallows Pole’ by Benjamin Myers
18th-century Yorkshire meets the Sopranos: intrigue, betrayal, murder, and revenge in the Calder Valley.
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Newsletter No. 5: ‘Incongruous owl’
Dawn chorus • Simon Armitage • the invention of the telescope • huge, sprawling collaborations • Withnail & I • book smells • re-assembling Darwin’s research notes • converting walks into words • Daniel Dennett • writing letters • humanist politics • dentistry with stone tools • analysing penguin poo • Melissa Harrison • Robert Macfarlane • swallows • and more…
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Book review: ‘Pilgrim at Tinker Creek’ by Annie Dillard
Pulitzer-Prize-winning ruminations on the natural world.
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Book review: ‘Selected Letters of Philip Larkin’ (Anthony Thwaite, ed.)
Hugely entertaining correspondence from one of Britain’s most popular poets.
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Undermining religious tradition: a time-honoured religious tradition
Religious tradition has been being ‘undermined’ in Britain since recorded history began—most of the time by people of a distinctly religious persuasion.
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Newsletter No. 4: ‘Paint to pufferfish’
Robert Macfarlane • Hilary Mantel • Martha Sprackland • Viking wool • Charles Darwin’s reading habits • human evolution • praying to Elrond • drawing • making ink • Rebecca Solnit • insectivorous plants • do pufferfish hold their breath? • and more…
